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My life is weird (link)

04 March 2008 - 6.36 AM

Whoever I am, and whatever my life USED to be like, one thing is sure. My life is very weird these days. (but slightly less lonely, thanks to those of you who've started emailing me, thank you!) Anyway, this is my very weird To Do list for the week while I wait for my memory to come back, or for someone to figure out who I am.

(Update: I'm adding "research the Olympics" to my to do list... so many people keep mentioning it to me. How can we find out if there's any mention of a "lost ring" in Olympic history?)

THINGS TO DO

1. check blog and video comments – does anyone recognize me??
2. figure out what my tattoo means and why at least four other people with amnesia have it (!!!!!)
3. learn Esperanto in all my spare time??
4. practice repulsing the monkey and carrying the tiger to the mountain

Don’t worry. I’m not actually harassing any animals! The monkey/tiger stuff refers to T'ai Chi Ch'uan. I met an older couple at the inn where I’ve been staying, and they practice it every morning. I started mirroring them a bit, and they noticed – so they took me under their wing to teach me. I picked up the moves really fast.

I’ve learned all 108 forms in the past few days. Apparently that’s quite odd. According to my new friends, the Pings, usually it takes years to master all the forms. Not me – I got them basically all on the first try, and remembered them perfectly.

At first, this made no sense to me. I can’t seem to remember anything about my own life. So why should my memory work perfectly at learning new stuff?

But while I was repulsing the monkey today (I know, that sounds awful!) a phrase popped into my head out of nowhere: “kinesthetic memory”.

I looked it up and it means, basically, muscle memory. Your muscles remember so your brain doesn’t have to.

Maybe my brain got fried in the labyrinth, but my muscles still remember everything? I’m not sure… but I’m going to keep practicing the forms to see if anything else pops into my head...